New Delhi Dec 13 (IANS) A section of Delhi University teachers on Wednesday opposed the centralised app-based attendance system saying it may become a tool for harassment and may be used for "settling of scores".
The system is being run by the varsity on a pilot basis in a few colleges.
In a letter to the university Vice Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi the teachers argued that such a system will only come at the cost of hindering flow of knowledge among students and teachers.
"Measures like app-based attendance do not take the soul of academics into account and are aimed at only keeping time and not its quality " read the letter signed by a number of teachers a few of whom are members of statutory councils of the varsity.
"Such an app-based attendance will provide a handy format to victimise a large number of teachers and settling of scores by the authorities " it read adding these are the reasons the Executive Council decided not to implement biometric attendance in 2009.
A faculty member one of the signatories told IANS that the mobile application is being used in at least two colleges -- Acharya Narendra Dev College and Shivaji College -- on a pilot basis.
"The decision was taken after a committee was formed constituted only of a few principals and was not even discussed in the statutory bodies (Academic Council and Executive Council). Our argument is this that it should be discussed in the AC and EC " Rajesh Jha a member of the Executive Council said.
He added that the university has not revealed any plan yet of uniformly implementing it across the colleges and departments under it.
--IANS
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